Book 01
The Cost of Being Seen
An impossible object appears above the Pacific, and Alex Mercer recognizes the deeper pattern beneath the explanation the world is ready to believe.
THE RESET SERIES
RESET
Humanity was never alone.
It was never supposed to know.
A six-book science fiction series by Elijah Canfield.
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RESET: First Contact
Before the events of Book One, Kael discovers that independent artificial intelligence systems are converging on a truth hidden beneath the surface. With the old safeguards failing and time collapsing, he must decide whether to preserve the silence or reach one human mind before discovery becomes catastrophe.
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The Cost of Being Seen
Alex Mercer studies the moment systems begin to fail, when pressure gathers beneath the surface and certainty becomes more dangerous than ignorance.
Then an impossible object appears above the Pacific.
The world calls it artificial intelligence. Alex sees a deeper pattern. Something below the ocean has been hidden for longer than human history remembers. Something above it is learning too quickly.
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Every discovery has a cost.
RESET is a six-book speculative science fiction series about artificial intelligence, hidden civilization, moral restraint, and what happens when recognition arrives before understanding.
Book 02
The Cost of Being Known
The world has seen the impossible. Now something impossible knows Alex Mercer by name.
Book 03
The Cost of Knowledge
First contact has become knowledge, and every system now wants the right to define what humanity is allowed to know.
The RESET series will continue across six novels.
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Some worlds survive by remaining unseen.
The Author
Elijah Canfield
Elijah Canfield is a Michigan-based entrepreneur, engineer, and storyteller. His work is shaped by a long fascination with systems: how they fail, how they adapt, and what they reveal about the people living inside them.
He is also the founder of RIPT Apparel, an independent pop-culture apparel company built around artists, design, and the communities that form around shared stories.
RESET is his speculative science fiction series about hidden history, artificial intelligence, restraint, and the price of being truly recognized.